Technology

Data is worth its weight in gold when it comes to the financial markets, and some analytical services stand out from the others. We spoke to Sergey Lyalin, Founder, and Anna Volodina, Conference Producer, CIS & Eurasia Markets, about how Cbonds has been a key player for more than two and a half decades, not just delivering on data, but creating spaces for conversation and collaboration in the market.

After five years of dedicated support to war veterans, allowing them to boost their education and careers, 4090 Foundation brought beneficiaries and partners together for an event earlier this year to mark the successful achievement of its mission. We take a look back at the remarkable story of this organization and the journey it has undertaken.

Financial literacy is not seen as an optional add-on or a social program in Armenia; it is a core topic that has elicited a strategic outlook and an ecosystem-based approach. In an interview with Armen Nurbekyan, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), we take a closer look at the vision behind this approach and how it will impact the population of the country

On the slopes of Mount Aragats, a Franco-Armenian project has raised solar panels above rows of Areni and Voskehat. The result is the region’s first agrivoltaic vineyard, a working experiment in whether the same plot of land can produce good wine and clean electricity at once, and whether one can actually help the other.

On May 26, Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Yerevan for what his team described as a working visit: one hour on the ground, flying in from India and back to Washington. In that single hour, three agreements were signed between Armenia and the United States. The texts were published the same day, but the ongoing election campaign consumed the public conversation entirely. Now that Armenians have voted and the political landscape has somewhat settled, this is the right moment to read those agreements with clear eyes and ask what they actually mean for the country. The one that deserves the closest reading is also the one that received the least attention: the memorandum on critical minerals and rare earths.

Yesterday, the first NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs physically arrived in Armenia. The announcement phase of the country's AI megaproject is over. The hardware phase has begun. Four months after the headlines, here are the questions the press conferences skipped.

Dilijan has been buzzing with activity in the recent past and has ambitions to become a key destination in Armenia and the whole region. We talked to Ekaterina Bredikhina, Director of Green Rock Foundation, about how they are helping to make this happen.

Armenia Stock Exchange (AMX) held a high-level investment forum titled "Unlocking Investment Opportunities in Armenia" on February 5 in Abu Dhabi, hosted by the Tabadul Hub, the first exchange network operating on a mutual market access model in the MENA region.

With over 500 young people already signed up for their circular economy contest, Green Fox is making waves in Armenia’s youth education scene. We asked the team to tell us about their innovative approach to teaching teens about sustainability through their superhero fox character and Telegram chatbots.

With over 120 Impact Hubs existing in the global network, many of them are running programs on the Circular Economy. We spoke to Ani Baboomian, a programs manager in the global Impact Hub team, to learn more about the initiatives that are being rolled out in various countries, the tangible impact they are creating, and their potential to transform the future of business.